a??安5d=??”?[;*k the newspaper, read it all over and turned around and said to Gu Feng: "If you haven't found who Zheng Shihang is today, you can arrange for someone to call and take the initiative to meet with the other party. I want to see who he is." r

When bidding, because the time was too tight, although he saw Zheng Shihang's phone number, he did not come to dial. Moreover, it was not a good time to dial. Even if it was a fake number, you would not dare to take it lightly just because of a few times. Maybe someone wrote it wrong, and after the auction was over, will they actively contact the auction house? r

If someone answers, it will be even more embarrassing. Can you ask him directly if he wants to make trouble?

But now there is no problem. Now the initiative is in their hands, so you can try to contact them. Because if the phone cannot be called, even if they abandon the bid, the exhibition should not be able to contact this person. Then the chicken jar cup will definitely be in the hands of his original owner. r

If the phone can be connected, you can really try to talk openly. If you confirm that the guy really has to spend 400 million to buy the chicken jar cup, then it doesn't matter if Li Yi spends 400 million more. The most important thing is to confirm that you can't be fooled by someone!

"Okay, Brother Yi." r

"By the way, if you contact you at the exhibition, you promise to pay first, but it will take time, so I will drag the time to the last afternoon." r

The title of the report just now was a bit sensational. It was a fact that no one paid to claim the chicken jar cup as soon as possible, but it was too early to draw this conclusion now.

Although Gu Feng used a pseudonym, the phone number he left was a real number. Because Li Yi might need to contact the seller through the exhibition in the later stage, and it would take time to investigate Zheng Shihang, so he could not let the exhibition not be contacted.r

Otherwise, if the exhibition sells the chicken cup to Zheng Shihang on the excuse of not being able to contact, wouldn’t this be a big accusation? You should know that the two quotations are only one yen apart. For the owner and the exhibition, it doesn’t matter who sells it to.r

After arranging the matter here, I happened to arrive at the first store I was going to today.r

Coincidentally, as soon as he walked into the store, Li Yi noticed that the shop owner was holding a newspaper he had just read in the car. There was a photo of him on it.

Before coming, he made an agreement with Aitan Misa that today's introduction will be replaced by Mr. Li, because he is afraid that if someone picks up a bargain, he will be recognized and intercepted. Now it seems that this decision is quite wise!

Because the shop owner was staring at the photo and studying it carefully, it seemed that he could see some secret through the photo.r

"Aitian, are you here? This is the friend you told me before? Hello, I know you are coming, so I prepared a few better things yesterday."

Li Yi nodded politely at him. Since he is ready, let's take a look. Maybe he can see something else.

"Hi, please wait." r

The shop is connected to a resident, which is the owner's home. So after seeing Li Yi agree, the owner ran back home.

Within two minutes, the owner walked out carefully with a wooden box.r

Li Yi stretched his head and couldn't help but look at it. There were three statues of ancient Buddhas in this wooden box, and they were all stone sculptures that looked ancient at first glance! r

Regarding the collection of Buddha statues, Li Yi felt that it could be treated as an independent category, because there were too many and too complicated. Not only were there many ancient Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who could be created, but they were probably unrecognizable to those who were not well-known researchers. The materials were also varied, such as copper, porcelain, stone, and wood. It is also common for other Buddha statues carved from gold, silver and gems. r

But when it comes to collection value, there are two types of Buddha statues made of materials, which should be paid special attention to: one is bronze Buddha statues and the other is stone Buddha statues.

The bronze Buddha is because it is huge in quantity, but the quality is different, and there are especially many fakes. The stone Buddha statues are because they are ancient, especially the small ones, which look a bit incomplete, and they may be treasures from thousands of years ago.

Generally speaking, the ancient stone Buddha statues are far less expensive than those of some gilded bronze Buddhas or some precious materials, but in terms of collection value, they may not be below them.r

Especially the roughly preserved stone Buddha statues from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and even the Sui and Tang Dynasties, almost every piece is a national treasure. If you are lucky enough to collect a Buddha statue from the Han Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty, then congratulations, just with this thing, you can already pretend to die in your circle of collectors.r

Li Yi carefully invited a Buddha statue and said that it was a Buddha statue a bit inaccurate. To be precise, this style should be called a Buddha statue stele. For this specific piece, it should be called a stone sculpture of one Buddha and two Bodhisattva statue stele. r

The so-called statue stele is to carve Buddha statues on stone steles. Once this statue is true, it will be very precious, because the statue stele of Buddha statues was popular from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. It was a unique religious, Buddhist, cultural and artistic variety that was absolutely not available after the Tang Dynasty! r

Moreover, from the perspective of existing physical objects, the earliest was the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the largest number of them in the Eastern Wei Dynasty and Northern Qi Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty and Northern Zhou Dynasty. By the Sui Dynasty, it was only occasionally seen in the Tang Dynasty.

This statue stele carved a large, two small and three Buddha statues. The overall characteristics are very unified, that is, the face of the statue is not round, wide and plump, solid body, slender neck, and inaccurate body. This is generally called "transitional characteristics" in the study of Buddha statue stele.

In other words, this Buddha statue stele is a work in the period of dynasty changes. According to the facial features and clothing of the Buddha statue, Li Yi judged that it should be a Buddha statue from the Sui Dynasty.r

The spiritual appraisal card passed by gently, and the thick, extremely cold air told Li Yi that his judgment was not wrong. This one was indeed a Buddha statue monument from the early days of Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian in the second year of Kaihuang. It was 14 years ago!

He gently invited the statue to the side, and Li Yi invited a Buddha statue from the wooden box.

This stone Buddha statue is also a Buddha statue stele, but only two Buddha statues on the left and right are carved. The biggest difference from the Buddha statue stele just now is that you can see at a glance that the proportions of the Buddha statue carved on this one are coordinated. r

The Buddha statue carved on this Buddha statue stele not only has a coordinated body proportion, but also has a more shallow, fine and sparse style. It is the standard style of the so-called "praising clothes and water" in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Moreover, this Buddha statue stele uses marble as the statue material, with a delicate texture and smooth texture, which is also in line with the characteristics of the Buddha statue in the Northern Qi Dynasty, because marble was a specialty in the controlled area of ​​the Northern Qi Dynasty at that time.

After carefully observing the characteristics of this statue, Li Yi opened the spiritual appraisal card,

"In the fifth year of Wuping in the Northern Qi Dynasty, two stone statues of Bodhisattvas, authentic." r

The age of this Buddha statue is 8 years older than the one from the second year of Kaihuang just now!

The last Buddha statue left in the wooden box is a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha Nirvana.r

The carving methods of this Buddha statue are much more complicated than the first two pieces, and the lines are clearer, reflecting completely different characteristics of the times.r

In this carving, Sakyamuni lay on his side on the stone bed, with a head snail, and a fleshy bun on his head slightly aloud; his face was vivid and his expression was peaceful; he was wearing a cassock with his right shoulder, with a bow exposed on his chest, his clothes were realistic and natural, and his style was rough, vividly expressing the scene of Sakyamuni Buddha's Nirvana.r

"This one" Li Yi has always studied antiques. The older the age, the better. The more valuable he is, the more willing he is to study it. So he just recognized the origin of the first two Buddha statues at a glance, and even judged the approximate age.

But this made him feel a little embarrassed.r

Judging from the carving technique of this reclining Buddha, it is likely to be a Buddha statue from the Song Dynasty, but it may also be from the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Moreover, from the perspective of the carving style, Li Yi is more inclined to be a work of ethnic minorities, so it is more likely to be a statue from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

"Five generations and ten countries, that's a bit difficult to judge" r

There are not only 15 countries in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. If you include those short-lived regimes, this number will even be far beyond 2o, so it is difficult to judge.r

However, it does not mean that it is impossible to judge. First, we can see from the carving techniques that the style of this Buddha statue is obviously a style that only northern craftsmen have, so the scope has been reduced a lot.r

After watching for a while, Li Yi saw that he was really unable to judge, so he directly turned on the soul-tapping card.r

"In the third year of Liao Tianxian, a stone sculpture of Sakyamuni Buddha Nirvana statue." r

Liao Kingdom? I just forgot about this great enemy of the Northern Song Dynasty! r

Li Yi smiled bitterly, took out his mobile phone and searched the Internet. Tianxian was a year name used by Yelu Deguang, the emperor of Emperor Taizong of Liao. The third year of Tianxian should be 9 AD. This Buddha statue was also 1 ooo years old!

Taking a deep breath, Li Yi asked, "Mr. Fujita, how do you sell these Buddha statues?"

"Well, these three pieces, each piece is 280,000!" r

Each piece is 280,000 yuan? It is less than 180,000 yuan. Although the price of the three pieces is different in shape, age, and intact, which seems a bit unreasonable, if you consider the overall situation, the three pieces are only 840,000 yen, which is really not very expensive.

"No problem, then this is the price!" Li Yi signaled Gu Feng to swipe the card to pay the bill, and then after everything was done, he asked with a smile: r

"Mr. Fujita, do you have any Buddha statues like this?" r

Fujita hesitated for a moment and said, "There are no such stones, but the Buddha statue still has it, but it is copper." r

"Oh? The bronze Buddha is OK, please take it out?" (To be continued.)

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